Can someone help?

Forum: X and Fluxbox
Topic: Can someone help?
started by: Fallen Kell

Posted by Fallen Kell on May 26 2005,22:01

I am trying to keep the menu in fluxbox from poping up when the mouse is first moved on the desktop. Does anyone know how to fix this?

Posted by mikshaw on May 27 2005,01:41

Sounds like your mouse is not properly configured....try running "sudo xsetup.sh" and choose a different mouse.

Posted by SaidinUnleashed on May 27 2005,06:05

It does that for me too, with my optical mouse.

Used to bother me, but I really don't notice it anymore.

I think it's just a quirk in Kdrive.

-J.P.

Posted by libretto on May 27 2005,12:32

I get the same glitch with my boxes. Also, for some reason, on one of my boxes, fluxbox starts up on desktop 4

Posted by adssse on May 27 2005,14:19

Same thing happens here too on both my desktop and laptop. I dont really mind that much, but would be interested to know more about it if someone can figure it out.

Posted by ke4nt1 on May 27 2005,15:27

and I see it here as well...
I'm with the opinion about it being kdrive,
because I've seen it thruout several series of DSL.

Sometimes I get it on one box, another one won't
Seems to be a part of mouse init..
Changing mouses does make a difference..

I just ignore it now..

73
ke4nt

Posted by Guest on May 27 2005,16:31

I have seen this too, and changing the pointing device does make a difference. Also, you will find that a mouse that works normally when plugged in to PS2 port will do that phantom right-click when plugged in the serial port (with an adapter). This made me suspect a hand-shaking problem (communication speed or error in implementation of the protocol). Another problem I observed with one mouse that does this is that you cannot do click-and-drag. If you did, you will cause the window to maximize, or the link to the icon will execute.

Posted by cbagger01 on May 27 2005,16:42

The Kdrive xserver contain a routine that will auto detect the mouse protocol.

It is possible that the fallback process will produce strange mouse movements or clicks when first started up.

Without reading the code, it must work like this:

Try protocol #1
FAIL
OK, try protocol #2
FAIL
OK, try protocol #3
SUCCESS
No need to try protocol #4

So this would explain why some mice work and others don't. It would also explain why the same mouse might behave differently if it is connected via a different interface.

Posted by mikshaw on May 27 2005,16:44

If it's something that occurs only once, just after X loads, then i think i've got a similar, less annoying issue. It seems that with recent DSL releases (since 1.0 maybe?), the mouse does not respond to the very first action. I've gotten into the habit of nudging the mouse once just after fluxbox loads, and after this the pointer moves as expected.
This is with ps/2 ball.

Could it be that the mouse is being misconfigured at first, and then kdrive makes an adjustment to fix it?

Posted by cbagger01 on May 27 2005,16:53

It is certainly possible.

I once tried to use an old Microsoft PS/2 mouse (circa 1993 with no wheel) and XVesa was unable to figure it out. It just kept hopping from protocol to protocol and never committing to one.

Posted by Fallen Kell on May 27 2005,18:45

I'm just glad I am not the only one

I am a "newb" and all with this distro, but I have done some remastering as well as changed boot load options (as per another post) to add network static ip config thru lilo with a frugal_install (edited the knoppix-autoconfig and frugal_install.sh to add in the functionality). I will post a how to on what I did, but I really simply added stuff that others had already figured out, I just placed it into the lilo config stuff in the frugal_install.

This was the last real annoyance that I could see and was trying to trace it down since this install was to be used on some real systems.

Posted by JPierri on May 27 2005,19:35

The same is happening here, after startup, when you move mouse for the first time, a broken menu opens and desktop goes to 4.

It happens either with my optic USB mouses and old ball PS/2 ones.

I think it has no way of being a hardware issue.
I will like to get it fixed too

Posted by Guest on May 27 2005,19:42

Quote (mikshaw @ May 27 2005,12:44)

... the mouse does not respond to the very first action. I've gotten into the habit of nudging the mouse once just after fluxbox loads, and after this the pointer moves as expected.
This is with ps/2 ball.

I have seen this one too (on a PS2 ball, Logitech USB ball connected to PS2 through an adapter, and Compaq Presario 1245 touchpad). For these, I had to move the mouse first before any mouse button can work.

Posted by hmm on June 04 2005,03:16

this is REALLY driving me crazy... is there a fix anywhere? if i move the scrollbar in say a browser then it will jump all over the place and either start moving the window (usually off screen) or it will go off and open my desktop right click menu... it's making me absolutely insane and this is the only distribution I've found that will fit on my harddrive